New artificial turf at Jupiter High for $380,000 approved by Jupiter town council

Spending $380,000 to install artificial turf by the fall at Jupiter Community High School’s athletic field was approved 4-0 by the Jupiter town council on Tuesday.

Boosters raised the same amount to match the town’s pledge to tear out the grass field and install the new turf at the 2,800-student school on Military Trail, said Ernie Cox, president of Jupiter High School Athletic Boosters.

The plan calls for renaming the stadium Velocity Community Credit Union Stadium for five years. The naming is in return for the Palm Beach Gardens-based company’s $100,000 donation, Cox said.

The Palm Beach County School Board is scheduled to vote on its own final approval of the plan Wednesday.

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This is horrible, kids that age don't need to be risking serious injury on turf. Speeds are higher, hits are harder and the ground is hard to fall on. This is a horrible disservice to the kids, the school should be ashamed.